Parts 11-12: Separate-Coverage Group: LOWER COLORADO RIVER REGION (BELOW GRAND CANYON) SPECIALIZED MATERIAL
Part 11
ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL HISTORY, AND SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, OR CULTURAL ISSUES OF THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER REGION
Environment, natural history, and certain special issues (including agriculture, archaeology and ethnological studies) specifically about the lower Colorado River corridor and adjacent lands below Grand Canyon — from Lake Mead, Arizona–Nevada, and through the Arizona–Nevada–California corridor to the Colorado River delta region in Baja California and Sonora, Mexico, including the areas of the Salton Sea and Imperial and Mexicali Valleys; and issues pertaining to the adjacent portion of the Upper Gulf of California
Note: Users who wish to investigate publications for the entirety of the Gulf of California may consult Richard C. Brusca's periodically updated "A Bibliography for the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California)" at (full URL thus):
Section 1 — Environment, Ecology, Biology, and Public Health and Safety
Section 2 — Geology, Paleontology, Hydrology, and Related Disciplines
Section 2A — Separately Published Geologic and Special Maps [These maps are also cited in THE GRAND CANON Volume 2, Cartobibliography. Guides to topographic map quadrangles appear in Section 4B of the Cartobibliography.]
Section 3 — Archaeology, Indigenous Cultures and Issues, and Contemporary Cultural Resources
Section 3A — General Guide to Documentation for Places in the Lower Colorado River Region Listed in the NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES and in the NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK SYSTEM Administered by the U.S. National Park Service
The following special bibliographies are available. See descriptions under the "SPECIALIZED BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND HISTORICAL VOLUMES" tab of this website, or download files now with the buttons farther below.
- Ichthyology of the Lower Colorado River: Glen Canyon Dam to the Río Colorado Delta, Grand Canyon tributaries, and lower Virgin and Muddy Rivers [this bibliography typographically distinguishes between the Grand Canyon region and the region below Grand Canyon]
- Biology, ecology, and environment of Lake Mead, Arizona–Nevada: Including Las Vegas Wash, lower Virgin River, and specific localities in Lake Mead National Recreation Area
- Biology, ecology, and environment of the Colorado River limitrophe and delta, and adjacent upper Gulf of California
- Biology, ecology, and environment of the Salton Sea and Imperial–Mexicali Valley region